Tags: Israel

‘No Human Logic in What Happened’: After an Israeli Settler Attack, West Bank Palestinian Farmer Wakes From Coma to a Life Upended

‘Where is the Israeli Shin Bet? Where is the Israel Police?’: Attackers fractured Hikmat Shteiwi’s skull, caused dozens of other fractures and torched his car in his olive grove. The army is supposed to prevent such attacks, but is protecting the settlers, friends and family members of the victim tell Haaretz.

Toys, spices, sewing machines: the items Israel banned from entering Gaza

Israel had already been limiting the movement of goods and people between Gaza and the West Bank at least since the early 1990s. In 2006, after Hamas won 74 out of 132 seats in the Palestinian legislative elections, Israel escalated its blockade.

Gazans used as human shields, subjected to cruel new types of torture – Day 268

Israel’s inhumane practices toward Gazan prisoners & civilians; hospitals about to shut down for lack of fuel; such Israeli restrictions long predate Oct. 7- see this 2006 video; Ben-Gvir calls for Palestinian prisoners to be starved, then shot in the head; new racist bill making its way through Israeli legislature; female prisoners mistreated; West Bank assassination; more.

Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war

As the Gaza war rages, Israeli funds target US college campuses and push to redefine antisemitism in US law – part of a sometimes covert operation by the Israeli government to strike back at student protests, human rights organizations and other voices of dissent.